Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-15
WASHINGTON.
The Famous Sword Presented TO
Commodore Morganby the State
Of Virginia TO be Sold.
Twenty-Five Hundred sud Eighty Fed
eral Pensions III Texas Tarranr
County Hesds The List.
President and Mrs cleveland 60 to Pnila
dslPhia TO Participate IN the Cen1en
NAL Celebration.
FAMOUS SWORD TO Bn SOLD.

! Special to the Gazette.
! WASHINGTON, Sept. IA sou Of Com
modore Morgan who is Row in England
has given orders that sword of his
fathers which has laiu in the vs.!t of one
Of Washingtdh's bsnks for thirty vesrs
DC sold. /! is said the action is necessary
to relieve the necessities OF the heirs. ON
one Of tae shields of the handle is the
following inscription; "Presented ~ the
state CT Virgins to Charles Waugh Nor
gan in honor OF his intreuldity ard vaIor
IS lieutenant Of the United States fri
gate Constitution at the, capture Of the
| British trigete 'GueIriere' eEd Java on
! the 9th Of August, 1872, and the 10Th Of
| December, 1879"
The handle Is elaoorately ornamented
and there is at least 5000 worth of gold.
| THE RECORD FOB TEXAS.
| Special to the Gazette.
| WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-THE report OF
! Commissioner Of Pensions Back is out
| tonight. ItshOws that Texas hes 92~0
citizens drawing pensions from the gov
eminent, the annual amount being $50
559.75. TsrrAnt county has the largest
number, ninety One, who draw S255I 80
! lIOu LuG government BOUNTY.
TEXAS PENSIONS.
| Special to the 5azette.
| WASHINGTON, Sept. / The following
Texas pensions were issued TO-DAY
| Mary Z, widow Of George Cochran.
Paris; Abrgm Thompson, ccIored, Hill,
! William d French, Efom.
OFF FOR PHILADELPHIA,
Special to the Gazette.
| " t.TTTN,-rAs-
dent, accompanied by MS. Cleveland.
will leave Tomorrow afternoon for P5iIe-
| deIphia, TO attend the centennial ami
yersary of the fJTmgtion of the Federal
constitution, and Secretary f}ayard end
| Colonel and Mrs. Lamar Will 20 with the
President. Mr.. JChu NJ. Carson OF this
! city has been selected by the PEiIadelDlia
reception committee 20 represent them.
and will have c11r2e OF the Pres
ident's party until their ar
rival il Philadelphia President
Roberts OF the Pennsylvania Railway
: Company has placed his private car az
the disposal Ct President Cleveland, and
it will be run 0vsr IS Il special car
sttGChed 10 any Of the regular trains is
the President may selsc,. Upon arriving
in Pnilade-pI.s the President will be
escorted 90 the LaFevette hotel
by the First CITY Troop, an
organization that dates Cgck
TO the revolution and which has
performed escort duty for every PresI-
dent OF the Uaitcd States from Washing
ton down. Governor Richardson OF
South Carolina eGd staff stopped over
here for few hours to-day, and then re-
sumed their way 10 the Philadelphia cele-
bratiOn.
JAY GOULD'S INVESTMENTS.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Sept. "a -CcnsidersDle
J curiosity has been awakened here by the
discovery That 3Lr. Gould is among the
number Of northern SPECTATORS, who
have lately been taking advantage of the
act Of Congress Of 1876, throwing open
the lands in the southern states to public
and private sale. Inc form Of specula-
ton has taken big boom lately. The
sales in the stGte of Louisiana for
example for July last slone were equal
to the total sEIes in the stste for
the whole year Of 1886. Mr..
Gould has been buying in
! Louisiana, chiefly il Calcasieu and Yer
| non parishes. The government lands in
the southwestern part Of the state, it is
said az the Land ONCE, are well grown
2 with timber, and the probability is that
= Mr.. GCuld's purchases are made with AZ
eye to the value Of the growing timber
/ His Own investment amounts to some
10000 acres, comprising al that was LEFT
Ct some eight townships in Calcssieu alC
Vernon parishes The cOntjguity OF these
lands TO his railway system suggests tht
probability that Mr.. Gould had resolved
2 if money Is to be made there, as il wa.
7 IN 10 ~
D timbers for the road, TO make it him.
T self Suspicious were also entertained
: ct first that the purpose Of the purchase
} was to secure the land necessary for lay
iEg out some tributary and connecting
! lines OF road, but the situation OF tht
property and the engineering dificultie.
: which present themselves in places rem
der this hypothesis idle.
e DALLAS FEDERAL BUILDING.
q Special 70 the Gazette
t WASHINGTON, Sept bids wert
= opened to-day by the Supervising Archi
r tect of the Treasury for the iron work an
wooden root OF the federal building e.
e Dsllas, Tex, The bidders were as fol
lows: Fer wood roof, A. BcownIee
! Co., Dallas, S4522; for iron work. J. +
e Boles & Co., Detroit, Mich, 325I2.
4 TEXAS NOTES,
i Special to the Gazette.
y WASHINGTON, Sept. 14-Presiden
Il Cleveland has written letter 10 Gov
ernor Ross OF Texas declining the cordia
/ invitation given to visit th.t state Ia
IS MIR. Cleveland expresses q strong desir
: to see Texas, but adds that owing TO tn
lack OF time it is utterly impossible 70
him to crafty his desire.
lie Congressman Grain said to-day tina
l. the interview reported ss had with MIN il
RI which Colonel Mills was severely crit
% cized was entirely false. He never said
it word against his colleague, so he ayers
T THE GOVERNMENT CHEATED IN ARIZONA
is WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.-John Hlse
st Surveyer-General Of AriZons, in his annu.
ie report to Land Commissioner Spark
st says: There is evidence that the accum
D. ulating Of land about eighty miles
be width and about one hundred miles lon
ne surveyed under the deposit system fl